Am 30.12.2011 18:14, schrieb Peter Masson:
I forgot to mention that, according to Herr Schnells plan, the
workers would be allowed to reapply for their job (at much worse
conditions) only at a completely new company which would not have the
old collective contracts with the trade union and the works council on
the books, so that the workers would be initially stripped of all
their acquisitions which they got over the past decades and which
could not be destroyed by the takeover of the GDR by the separate West
state.

The workers need a good lawyer who understands the German equivalent of
TUPE (Transfer of Undertakings - Protection of Employment) Regulations,
and the European Directive on which it is based.

That is what is happening in the Thatcherized Britain, but not in
Germany.

Tendering of transit (rail, tram or bus) operations in Germany does
exclude the taking over of the operation as it is, i.e. just the
exchange of the leading personnel, the stationary and the train
liveries, but the establishment of a completely new operation with their
own "new" workers, vehicles etc.


Cheers,
L.W.